Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1260 followers · 468 posts · Server mastodon.ie#OliverGoldsmith died #OTD 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/
Wrote first bio of #GeorgeBerkeley including this wild story from college days https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23/berkeley-strung-out/
Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including #EdmundBurke https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04/here-lies-edmund/
The original "Citizen of the World" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95900-9_3
#OliverGoldsmith #otd #georgeberkeley #edmundburke #IrishPhilosophyOTD
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1254 followers · 440 posts · Server mastodon.ieWhat! can anything be more fantastical, more repugnant to Common Sense, or a more manifest piece of Scepticism, than to believe there is no such thing as MATTER? -- George Berkeley.
(Or, why, even if a philosopher wrote it, doesn't mean he meant it.)
#georgeberkeley #thedangerofquotes
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1249 followers · 435 posts · Server mastodon.ieThomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913), Kantian scholar and critic of Berkeley's theory of vision. Born #otd in 1829.
#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/abbott-thomas-kingsmill-a0005
Berkeley's theory of vision and Abbott's critique: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/18/small-far-away/
#otd #dib #kingsmillabbott #georgeberkeley #IrishPhilosophyOTD
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1249 followers · 432 posts · Server mastodon.ieThomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913), Kantian scholar and critic of Berkeley's theory of vision. Born #otd in 1829.
#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/abbott-thomas-kingsmill-a0005
Berkeley's theory of vision and Abbott's critique: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/18/small-far-away/
#otd #dib #kingsmillabbott #georgeberkeley
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1244 followers · 434 posts · Server mastodon.ie👉 #Hashtags 👈
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Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1240 followers · 453 posts · Server mastodon.ie“I refute him thus!”: Misunderstanding Berkeley –
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immaterialism/
#IrishPhilosophyOTD #georgeberkeley
Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
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From man's blood-sodden heart are sprung
Those branches of the night and day
Where the gaudy moon is hung.
What's the meaning of all song?
'Let all things pass away.'
~ W. B. Yeats, from “Vacillation”
#georgeberkeley #SicTransitGloriaMundi #williambutleryeats
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1214 followers · 687 posts · Server mastodon.ieDon’t try this at home: #GeorgeBerkeley and tar-water – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/03/12/berkeley-and-tar-water/
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Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1152 followers · 764 posts · Server mastodon.ie#GeorgeBerkeley 's most popular work in his lifetime was not about vision (though it did include some contemporary medical thinking) or philosophy (though it did include some #neoPlatonism). It was his 1744 work Siris about tar-water,
a substance he heard about in America, which he used to treat the sick in the famine of 1741 and which finds echoes in #Dickens and #Yeats.
Don't try this at home https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/03/12/berkeley-and-tar-water/
#georgeberkeley #Neoplatonism #dickens #Yeats #irishphilosophy
Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
1152 followers · 763 posts · Server mastodon.ie
14 Jan: #GeorgeBerkeley, Bishop of Cloyne and philosopher, controversial then and now, died #OTD 1753 in #Oxford
He is best known for his theory of immaterialism, which argued that all we know are perceptions and other ideas https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immaterialism/
His theory of vision was accepted until the mid 19th century https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/18/small-far-away/
Image: (1) his monument in Christ Church, Oxford. He is buried nearby. https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/blog/bishop-berkeley
(2) his monument in Cloyne, Co #Cork.
#georgeberkeley #otd #oxford #IrishPhilosophyOTD #cork
Jeffrey M. Binder · @jmbinder
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Twitter's algorithm did an injustice by not showing anyone this dank #18thCentury #philosophy #meme I made.
#18thcentury #philosophy #meme #condillac #georgeberkeley #writing